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To ensure that our products are environmentally responsible, we are promoting (1)
energy conservation and global warming prevention, (2) resource conservation and
recycling.

Energy Conservation / Prevention of Global Warming

In addition to hardware solutions, Ricoh offers wide array of software solutions
to meet your goals in reducing energy saving from your Ricoh devices. On average,
imaging equipment is actually in operation (copying, printing, etc.) only few percentage
of typical business hour. That means those devices spend majority of time in “idling”
condition. All Ricoh imaging equipment is equipped with advanced power management
modes, but it is important to keep such modes fully utilized in order to minimize
your environmental impacts.

Resource Conservation /Recycling

According to Ricoh’s internal LCA (Life-Cycle-Analysis) study, paper consumption
at customer’s site is one of the biggest environmental impacts, along with energy
consumption from imaging equipment during use. According to Berkeley National Laboratory,
17Wh* of energy is consumed in manufacturing of a sheet of paper from virgin material
(12Wh from 100% recycled paper as a source).

Ricoh offers imaging equipment with features which enables practical paper consumption
reduction such as high-speed duplex and “easy to use” combined print/copy which
could reduce paper consumption up to 75% (duplexing and 2-up (2 images on one page)
printing of 8-page original document only uses 2 sheets as opposed to 8).

Also Ricoh provides wide variety of software solutions to support customers in becoming
paperless(ish) office environment. Scan to e-mail, electronic file cabinets, rule-based
printing are some of our proven solutions for paper consumption reductions. For
more information, please visit the following sections: